ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an examination of Heidegger’s “Question Concerning Technology”. Ultimately, Heidegger’s ethics of thinking leads to an ethics of action and is extended further in Hannah Arendt’s project. Heidegger’s consideration of the “Question Concerning Technology” is broad in its reach, returning us to Aristotle while simultaneously forecasting the slippage of meaning in post-modern culture. Heidegger illustrates the infinite potentialities of care in the passage: Dasein’s facticity is such that its being-in-the-world has always dispersed itself or even split itself up into definite ways of being-in. The inherent responsibility that accompanies self-care strongly forecasts the Existentialist movement that would espouse ultimate responsibility for our earthbound lives. Moving from the time of Marx’s writing to today’s globalized and automated manufacturing systems, the worker now is radically distanced from his work, replaced altogether, obsolete. It could be said that the peoples are thereby bound more tightly with the essence of technology and have become increasingly enframed.
